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Long Trailer:
Original Theatrical Trailer
AGFA Trailer:
TV Spot:
Interview With Director Daniel Erickson and Composer Hank Hehmsoth:
Interview with Jason Russel Waller (who played Brad) Talks Scary Movie and Upcoming Projects:
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.theoriginalscarymovie.com/
Scary Movie is a 1991 horror comedy film directed by Daniel Erickson. Its stars John Hawkes as Warren, Suzanne Aldrich as Barbara, Ev Lunning as Sheriff Pat Briggs, Mark Voges as Jerry, Zane Rockenbaugh as Billy, Jason Russel Waller as Brad, Virginia Pratt as Shelley, Ernie Taliaferro as Laughing Man, Zeke Mills as Basil, Butch Patrick as Eddie, Lee Gettys as John Louis Barker, Trant W. Batey as J. J., and Lorne Loganbill as Otto.
SYNOPSIS: Warren, a paranoid teenager goes with some friends, Brad, Shelley, and Barbara, to their town's haunted house on Halloween night. As they wait in line, Warren becomes increasingly uncomfortable with his surroundings. Little did these teens know that the infamous killer, John Louis Barker, is on the loose. What would have been a fun night suddenly turns sinister when Warren believes he is stuck in the haunted house to face Barker alone. Warren attempts to escape the maze, with his life and sanity intact.
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“Genuinely entertaining and beautifully executed.” — Annie Choi, BLEEDING SKULL!
Never legitimately distributed until this very moment, SCARY MOVIE is a joyous horror triumph starring Academy Award© nominee John Hawkes (EASTBOUND AND DOWN). On Halloween night, big-time nerd Warren (Hawkes, channeling a mix of Buster Keaton and Crispin Glover) attends a spookhouse in a small Texas town. But is the haunted house as harmless as it seems, or has a psychotic mental patient found a new stomping ground? Shot in Austin, Texas, SCARY MOVIE combines Argento-esque neon, Freddy Krueger dreamscapes, and slapstick inspired by EVIL DEAD 2 to forge a valentine to Halloween, rubber monster masks, and chopped-off limbs. From the songs by Roky Erickson and Butthole Surfers to the surrealistic mood, this is a true discovery for adventurous horror-heads.
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Daniel Erickson won the Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival for Scary Movie, and, shortly thereafter, the Austin-based filmmaker established himself as an accomplished director of Texas music videos. Erickson is currently developing feature-length projects while continuing to work on music video and commercial productions. His second feature, Eve's Necklace (2009), was the first-ever motion picture with an all-mannequin cast, and it won Best Feature at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival.
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...The haunted house in Scary Movie is an architectural anomaly, its unassuming exterior unfolding the slow reveal of its various rooms, hallways and dungeons like the centerpiece of Mark Z. Danielewski's novel House of Leaves. The film's house (can you guess which Hitchcock film it references?) was a facade: each room was built and then deconstructed on a sound stage, thereby allowing the camera crew to move with ease inside the space while conveying the claustrophobia and horror which Erickson sought to impend on his protagonist.
The casting of a young Hawkes decades before his Academy Award nomination for Winter's Bone and his turns in The Perfect Storm and HBO's Deadwood, among dozens of other credits would be one of the film's defining achievements.
Scary Movie has been unjustly forgotten, a case that wasn't helped by the release of the 2000 comedy-horror send up with the same title. Erickson reveals that Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was initially set to be released with the title, but the young director and his team wrote a plea which the legendary horror director indulged.
Thankfully, the film is finding an audience and gathering clout as a must-see cult Halloween movie in some circles. Now viewers have a chance to see a vibrant, passionate talent on display and to witness a crazed performance by an actor who has gone on to have career-making performances in Deadwood (2004–2006) and Winter's Bone (2010) with still more to come. And if for nothing else, it's a ticket — no matter the month — to step back into the late evenings of October and to feel that brush of wind carrying something ominous and unknown on its breath... read more here.
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